Douglas F. Gray

The service provider market that today consists mainly of ASPs (application service providers) and NSPs (network service providers, will expand to become a US$400 billion industry by 2004 from $115 billion last year, an industry analyst said Wednesday.

Napster Inc. was granted a slight reprieve Monday, albeit in the form of an injunction from U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel.

Music file-sharing service Napster Inc. implemented file-filtering system Sunday night meant to block users from downloading a preliminary list of song titles provided by attorneys for the record industry, but by Monday afternoon users found they were able to bypass the system in some cases.

In what some had predicted would be judgement day for music-sharing service Napster Inc., the company revealed a plan Friday that appears set to block its users from accessing more than one million digital music files from its service.

Cisco Systems Inc. has warned customers of a flaw in its Internetwork Operating System (IOS) software that could compromise the integrity of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) traffic sent to and from its routers and switches.

U.S. companies will spend over US$17.6 billion on offshore outsourcing in 2005, more than triple the current spending amount, according to a study released Wednesday.

Sun Microsystems Inc. announced Monday the release of the first public beta version of Connector Architecture for its Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE).

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) launched two interoperable software suites Tuesday, as part of its "software ecosystem," designed to help its customers develop, integrate and deploy electronic services and manage IT infrastructure.